Trajectories of Early Childhood Skill Development and Maternal Mental Health

IF 5.3 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Resources Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI:10.3368/jhr.1222-12693r3

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli

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Abstract

We investigate the impacts of a perinatal psychosocial intervention on trajectories of maternal mental health and child skills, from birth to age 3. We find improved maternal mental health and functioning (0.17 to 0.29 SD), modest but imprecisely estimated improvements in parenting (0.07 to 0.11 SD), and transitory improvements in child socioemotional development (0.06 to 0.39 SD). The intervention had negligible influence on physical health and cognition. Estimates of a skill production function reveal the intervention attenuated the negative association between maternal depression and child outcomes, and narrowed outcome gaps between mothers who were and were not depressed in pregnancy.

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幼儿技能发展轨迹与母亲心理健康

摘要:我们研究围产期心理社会干预对从出生到3岁的母亲心理健康和儿童技能轨迹的影响。我们发现母亲的心理健康和功能得到改善(0.17至0.29 SD)，父母教养方面的改善(0.07至0.11 SD)，以及儿童社会情感发展方面的短暂改善(0.06至0.39 SD)。干预对身体健康和认知的影响可以忽略不计。对技能生产函数的估计显示，干预减弱了母亲抑郁与儿童结局之间的负相关关系，缩小了怀孕期间患有抑郁症和未患有抑郁症的母亲之间的结局差距。

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7.00

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1.90%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Human Resources is among the leading journals in empirical microeconomics. Intended for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners, each issue examines research in a variety of fields including labor economics, development economics, health economics, and the economics of education, discrimination, and retirement. Founded in 1965, the Journal of Human Resources features articles that make scientific contributions in research relevant to public policy practitioners.